[Milsurplus] What do I have?

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

Yes Jim the BC-645!
We have  a complete one with the  dynamotor etc.  We are  trying to get one 
of the Airborne IFF sets that WAS used! like a bc-800 or   one of its  
brothers we would like to display it  with the ground unit  below...
 
We have the ground unit that was used  with early  radar   with bed spring 
antennas it must  weigh  400 lbs  it was  a gift to us  but it  rode in my  
wife's van for a year. She  would ask every once in a while... "when is the  
GENERAL ( referring to its green military look) going  into the  building?" 
 Eventually I got a couple  strong young people  to  get it out of the van 
and under cover.It is beautiful shape!
 
Ed _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/2/2017 8:55:56 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
antqradio at sbcglobal.net writes:

 
Ed, I assume you are referring to the  BC-645 IFF R/T unit?  


I think that being taken apart is  perhaps the only thing the BC-645 was 
good for.  10's of thousands were  build but never fielded.  What a waste of 
money and resources!  At  least it was put to some good use as a teaching aid 
even if no one ever did  anything with the parts.  


What is being overlooked is that the  experience of taking something 
electronic apart is what gets one hooked on  radio in general and military radio 
specifically.  How many of us, of a  certain age when surplus was abundant, 
can say that doing something like this  wasn't our introduction to the radio 
hobby?


For the last few years, the bits and  pieces that I take to sell at 
hamfests and is left unsold by noon, I give away  to kids aged from 8 to 15 years 
old or so with the explicit instructions to  take it apart and have fun with 
it.


It is fun for me to see the kid's  reaction and watch their eyes light up!  
Of course, it is less work for  me to load up and cart the stuff back home 
so I guess there is a selfish  motive at work here too.
Jim




 
 
  
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 From: Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via  Milsurplus 
<milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
To: farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com;  milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:03  PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus]  What do I have?



 
I have one of those IFF  sets  that show up looking like  new all the 
time...  but   I also have one where  someone tried to make a  400 mc  cb set  
out of...  same thing   remove all components and  start  over  with  stripped 
chassis....  I keep it just to  show  it off!
 
 
Ed#
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/2/2017  7:23:02 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com  writes:

 
 
It looks like if it was ever a  Navy rig, was modified according to a plan 
that started with, "remove all  components".


RF












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